JMKoriginals by Judy Keefe

Happy Birthday to my Daughter

This is for you Jennifer honey!  XOXO!

I love you!

xoxo

Mom

 

My Birthday!

I had a wonderful birthday!  It started last Saturday with my oldest daughter and her family coming down to visit and today Paul and I went to have lunch at the MFA!

click on picture!  That's us taking a picture!  Our reflection! ha!

    I love this picture  of us.  Paul looked so handsome, especially since he hates to get dressed up and he does NOT like going to museums and like places but he came down all dressed up and we ate at one of the resturants and he pushed me around in a wheelchair.  That allowed me to see much more than if I had used my cane. ~sigh~<3  We only saw part of the first floor but since we bought a membership I can go back for more! love love! I told Paul I had to get a picture of him next to a piece to prove he was there! haha~ No, seriously, he really had a great time and getting out did a lot of good for us.  I always find the art museum inspiring.

I haven't blooged in so long, spending too much time on FB.  Lately I've been trying to do some art and have been dry as a bone.  Hopefully soon I'll get my muse back!

If anyone is out there...xoxo..and thanks for visiting..really!

 

 

 

 

 

Fly Away With Me!

Whew...Umoungst (is that a word?) my many projects including the remodeling of my hall/personal museum! I finally have some items up on Etsy with more to add.

My first one sold (thank you Deborah!) but I have more styles and more to come.  Here are a couple:   

     Collaged earrings...made using vintage postage stamps and approx 16 layers of paper and gloss,

My Etsy is JMKoriginals and my name there is jmkmini  JMKoriginals

More earring sets, a necklace and some art pieces yet to go up!  I've been busy for months!  My hands have been geting progressivly worse but I'm just going to keep doing what I can until I can't!  I know God hasn't abandoned me and he will give me what I need at the time.  Thank you for visiting here.  I know I don't post often.  I tried to promice I would do more but it's not always possible, so I appreciate any of you that stop in.  If you would I would love to hear from you, comments are always welcome. 

xoxo

Judy

p.s.                                                                                                                     I have pictures of my brand new hall to gp up too!  It took almost 1 year to the date. plasterers, glaziers, electrician and 2 seperate carpenters to finish it!

 

~911 Remembered~

 

Her name is Hope and she is a survivor.  Her lover didn’t but their love survives inside her.  The sadness and tear is the remembrance of that love.

On the first anniversary of the attack on 9-11-01 I was looking through the newspapers and magazines I had saved and found what I thought at first was a black and white photo of people walking down the street coming from ground zero.  I was wrong, it was actually a color photo but the people were all covered in ash.  They were all shades of gray, what an effect it had on me.  It brought back all those feelings I felt that day.  That’s when I decided to make this art doll.

Hope represents the spirit of survival and moving on with life.  In her hand is a copy of a Sept 12^th 2001 newspaper.  On one side of her head is a large hole with cob webs of memories.  Her stiffened dress represents her strength that carried her through, and the tear is because it still hurts.   Her love was lost as the buildings

crumbled but she is moving on with life with a renewed strength and hope.

 

The Falling Man

This is the story that most of the media didn't want to talk about.  I wasn't sure if I wanted to watch and listen to the story but I'm glad I did.  The story needed to be told.  If you want to hear it I want to warn you because it is upsetting.

 http://www.thedocumentaryblog.com/index.php/2007/06/26/the-falling-man/

  

 NEVER FORGET

 

~Awake during Surgery?~

I needed surgery to remove a massive infection that I didn't know had been festering.  I was petrified.  Mr doctor has never hurt me but I knew it what he had to do since my daughter is adental assistant and I had seen pictures in her study books.  Strangely enough I came across this painting and saved it to find the artist.  When they were operating there wasn't any music and all I heard was the scraping!  OMG..I think he went all the way to the edge of my sinuses!  Even though he gave me a gazillion shots, I felt it.  Not quite the pain but the scraping and digging and stinging through my whole face....and I could NOT get this image out of my head!  I was praying like crazy that he did it fast and right after he said..almost done.  It was normally a 2 hr. operation but he was able to get it done in 1 1/2 hrs.  He is a wonderful endodontist and so very gentle and kind but it was the extent of infection and in the bone.  I was traumatized. 

Lesson...images bad enough or shocking imprint in your memory and can come out at any time!  Eeeeooow!  Today..the next day I have a fat face with my upper lip sticking out.  I know time and the meds will heal it.

Thank you for reading my experience, I hope my story didn't upset you.  I just needed to get it out.

 

   

~ Blue Monday ~

 

Jesus said "With man this is impossible but with God, all things are possible!"  With that..Blue takes on a happier note!

How can you be blue when you can look at so many blue pretties?  I have to admit that blue is my favorite color and indigo and cobalt are my favorite shades.  (Pink is my second favorite!)  

 

 
My last one..I don't want anyone to get Blue Overload!  (is that possible?)
 
Thank you so much for stopping by.
xoxo

 p.s.

I just finished a pair of Indigo earrings. The round bead is lapis and the bottom bead is Labradorite.  They are blue and I put words in my earrings as these are my paper earrings.  They are about 16 layers all together and end up being about 1/16" thick with several layers of varnish, makes them very hard.  Click on the pictures for a closer look.

Even Hotter! 106! Where's the Snow?

I couldn't believe it when I saw the thermometer (in the shade) register 106 and with the heat index 118!!!  Yuck!  

Well, seeing as Pink Saturday is coming tomorrow I'll treat you to some cooling photos!   HAPPY PINK SATURDAY!  If you don't know what Pink Saturday is, it's a fun blog hop of Pinkness started by Beverly of How Sweet the Sound

These pictures were taken this past winter, but I thought a nice pink tone would make them ok for our Pink Saturday.

  
 
Are you cool yet? 

 

 

 

  Ok..enough of the cooling fake pink pictures.

 

This is my latest coolest find at the local flea market!  

 

 

And it works!!  I have to have an electrician look at the wire because it has a wear hole on the cord but it should be fixable.  I love it!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I'm not the only one who loves it...It seems Sam does too but it is a little too big for her!

Sam is as hot as the rest of us.  Being so

hot outside her joints get loose so she desided to cool off in the bird bath!  The birds weren't too happy!  We've changed the bird bath water 4 times because the birds not only drink the water but they flap around bathing and what's left has been evaporating!

 

 

 

If you enjoyed your visit you should go to Beverly's  How Sweet the Sound And you can visit any or all of the blogs involved!  It is a wonderful way to pass the time!

 

Thanks Beverly!

Thank you for coming by my blog.  I would love to hear  if you enjoyed your visit! : )

xoxox       Judy                                                                                                                     

"Damn Hot!"

Hot hot hot sun! 
   Scorching 100+ degrees plus humidity!

     A whole week of this horrid weather!

~ Red, White and Blue ~

 

Happy Independence Day!

Celebrate the Red, White & Blue!  I'm a little late due to parties but it's good to celebrate our great country any time!

My favorite colors for my kitchen have always been Red, White and Blue!  I remember in my other house I suggested a red kitchen and some people said that was "a stupid color for a kitchen", needless to say I did it anyway, I painted all the walls red with white trim, and white cupboards which I filled with blue  and white fancy teacups and my very special blue glass (cobalt) most of them are packed away until I find room for them. (hence the display cabinet being built!) ....someday it will be finished..  *sigh* 

This is a gorgeous table runner that my friend Noreen Strautin- quilter!  If you click on it you'll see the details in her work. She made is specially for me with only my color requests. 

This is a few of my pieces (photo taken this past winter).

 

 

The cabinet close to finish!  Almost 8 months! Yikes!

 

 

Here is some more blue...  Beautiful pansies in my garden.

 

 

 

 

 

One last picture of one of a blue grackle of the grab and eat crew!                                       Thank upi fpr stopping by.  If you leave a comment I can come by and visit you!

ONE OF THOSE DAYS!

  
These are the new Indigo plants

 
The first 25 plants started to grow pretty good so I took my best 2 plants and put them outside since we finally got some sun, and kept a bunch inside with a couple of grow lights....Then... it looked like slugs or something was eating my plants so I sprayed them with a homemade solution, put crushed eggshell around then and a ring of copper pennies.  It looks like the eating stopped : )  The inside plants are growing and I've been moving them around in windows following the sun or on rainy days putting under the lights. Well, that was last weekend this is today!  
 What a way to start the day!  $&(@#^%!!

I was moving the plants this morning (waaay to early tojuggle 4 plants wearing braces!)  Of course, I dropped two and they broke (bent) Arrrgh!  I ran with them and dug a hole and shoved the whole plant down in the dirt all the way up to the broken area.  One seemed to take (so far) but my best plant looks awful. : (  Even though I taped it together at one of the bends.  Boy do they have a lot of roots,  I'll have to transplant them again.  How are you with plants?  I have some window space but the cats take that up..or eat the plants! 

As always, thank you so much for stopping by and please leave a comment if you found my blog interesting. : )